It’s been said that Tolkien’s ents are a gentle poke at the academic circles of Oxford and Cambridge with which he was so familiar: a cloistered bunch of fussy old bachelors endlessly ruminating. It might have been thought that that particular academic milieu was long past. But, reading
To the surprise of absolutely no one except the clueless clown-show that is the Canberra Bubble, the Parliamentary sex scandal that Labor and the left-media unleashed against the Morrison government is quickly turning on its handlers. As already reported on The BFD, another anonymous, historical rape allegation is
The Wuhan plague has been devastating for a great many people, but an absolute bonanza for politicians. They’ve been given – or seized – carte blanche to rule as absolute dictators, locking up populations in virtual house arrest on a whim and summarily shutting down entire economies. For all that, they’
Once upon a time, children were sent to school to learn to read, write and master maths. Not any more. While parents still view the purpose of schooling as basic education, teachers and academics think they know better. Nowadays, children spend more time at school learning about 57 imaginary genders
The definition of insanity is said to be doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Which raises the question: are Australia’s politicians barking mad? After all, as I’ve written before, they keep trying on the same thing – idiotic, media-driven, Canberra-bubble
As every conservative knows, Twitter’s rules aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Like most social media, Twitter’s “Rules and policies” are a strictly one-way affair. Only conservatives are ever held to “standards”; the left, not to mention blatant degenerates, are free to do as
While the Morrison government is rightly earning praise for its strong, principled stance against the Chinese regime, the fact remains that it is struggling to overcome a “silent invasion” that has spent decades white-anting Australia’s institutions, at every level. Whether it’s political parties taking literal shopping bags
It might still be summer in Australia, but we’ve got plenty of snowflakes blowing around. A whingeing “Indigenous activist” has recently bullied Coon Cheese into changing its name. Now, in what a gay friend of mine characterises as “more flaming faggotry”, an LGBTBBQEIEIEIO activist is campaigning against another longstanding
Contrary to the popular saying, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes – and no free lunch. But the left are so wedded to the idea that anything and everything from the gub’mint is free that they’ve even come up with a fancy euphemism for it: Modern Monetary
As I’ve been reporting, the mainstream narrative over the sex scandal gripping Australia’s parliament just doesn’t add up. We’re being told that Parliament House is a hotbed of “toxic men” sexually harassing and abusing poor, shivering, female staffers and even MPs. Except that the more we
Tasmania’s annual Dark Mofo winter arts festival would be better named the “Look at Me, I’m so EDGY!” festival. The brainchild of the poker millionaire who founded the Mona gallery in Hobart, it’s of a piece with the “edgy” art gallery: a whole lot of attention-seeking
The latest eructation from Australia’s very own Ministries of Truth is that Islamic terrorism will no longer be called Islamic terrorism. Instead, it’s all “religiously-motivated violent extremism” – y’know, because of all those Amish terror attacks. At the same time, the Chief Spook, who has been issuing
When I reported on the ongoing revelations of the sordid behaviour of staffers at Parliament House – rooting in MPs’ offices, performing “solo sex acts” on desks – I noted a peculiar insinuation. While the whole, sleazy affair is being blamed on “toxic masculinity” and, surprise, surprise, being used as leverage to
Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda unit national broadcaster is absolutely unbiased. Just ask them, they’ll tell you. Just ignore all that blatant bias. This is, after all, the taxpayer-funded broadcaster whose journalists almost uniformly vote for left-wing parties: in fact, ABC staff are four times more
In my recent series of posts on the Australia-New Zealand defence relationship, I warned that New Zealand was in growing danger of drifting further from its ANZAC partner. The most obvious point of difference recently has been China. Where Australia has become something of the poster child for Western
Magic is increasingly replacing logic in Australia’s legal system. Proponents of an Aboriginal “Voice” argue that one’s ancestry somehow imparts a magical “spiritual bond” with the land that no other race can attain. Worse, Australia’s highest court endorsed at law the Aboriginal mythology of “Dreamtime”. Now we’
